Wikipedia:WikiProject London

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This WikiProject is an attempt to organise articles about London into a coherent format.

Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 Parentage 3.1 Descendant Wikiprojects 3.2 Similar Wikiprojects 4 Participants 5 Structure 5.1 Motivation 5.2 Naming conventions 5.3 Framework 5.3.1 Done 5.3.2 To do 5.4 Substance 5.4.1 Done 5.4.2 To do 5.4.2.1 Good articles so far 5.4.2.2 Completed tube lines 6 Reference 6.1 Associated pages 6.2 External resources

Title

WikiProject London

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in London, and to help maintain and improve the London Portal.

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Cities.

Descendant Wikiprojects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Similar Wikiprojects

• WikiProject Melbourne
• WikiProject Seattle
• WikiProject Sydney
• WikiProject Toronto
• WikiProject Chicago
• WikiProject Adelaide
• WikiProject Ottawa
• WikiProject New York City
• WikiProject Southern California
• WikiProject Vancouver

Participants

You can also add the userbox Template:Tl to your user page. Template:User WPLondonTemplate:Clear

• secretlondon
• Morwen
• OwenBlacker
• Salim Fadhley
• Seabhcan
• WikiUser
• Studiosonic
• Deano
• Peripatetic
• The Half Gauntlet
• Bourbons3
• James Barton
• sonicKAI
• Enzomartinelli

Structure

Motivation

1. Greater London is one of the world's historic conurbations, with a population of more than 10 million. London is structured as a set of urban villages and small towns, and each of these villages and towns needs an article in the Wikipedia.
2. London is also the home of some of the cultural treasures of the world, such as the British Library and the British Museum. These, and other important places in London, deserve articles here.
3. London is also the home of three great public transport networks of historic importance: the bus, tube, and railway networks. These should be cross-linked into the other London articles.

Naming conventions

• Places: in cases where there is only one place with the name (or if the place in London is much better known than other places with the same name), the page should just be called [[Bethnal Green]]. In other cases, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names) for guidance.
• Underground lines: as [[Piccadilly Line]]
• Underground stations: as [[Piccadilly Circus tube station]]
• Railway stations: as [[Fenchurch Street railway station]]
• Dockland Light Railway stations: as [[East India DLR station]]
• Tramlink stations: as [[East Croydon Tram station]]
• Station that are more than one of Underground, Railway, Docklands Light Railway & Tramlink: as [[Cannon Street station]] unless the separate tube, rail, DLR and tram components merit separate pages eg: [[Charing Cross railway station]] and [[Charing Cross tube station]]
• Boroughs: as their official full names of [[London Borough of Enfield]] (special cases: the London Borough of the City of Westminster, the City of London, and the two royal boroughs, the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)

Framework

Done

• A shedload of small articles on London places have been auto-generated to create a trellis of linked pre-stub articles about places in London.
• These have been hand-edited to merge with existing content, and to fill in the correct London borough name for each of these place articles. A name has been filled in for all those on the list as of September 29, 2002, but checking by knowledgeable Londoners would be useful.
• The few places that actually are not in a London borough, but one of the surrounding counties, were renamed, and the links to them fixed.
• The London Portal has achieved featured portal status.

To do

• The article on the non-obvious system of London postal districts, should be cross-linked to the articles describing the places in that postal district. (maybe within a general article on postcodes in the UK!)
• Articles on notable London tourist attractions such as Trafalgar Square should be put in the same format as other London place articles.
• Maintenance of London Portal.

Substance

Done

• Articles on London and an index article for the London boroughs already exist. The links in the London boroughs article have been updated to point to the official names of the boroughs.

To do

• There should be an article on all 32 London boroughs, using the borough's official name (usually "London Borough of X"). Each borough article should have a list of localities within that borough at its end, using the naming conventions above.
• Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article.
• All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
• Fill in details in London postal districts article: see Talk:London postal district
• Every London Underground line, and the DLR, should have an article of the same level of quality of, say, the East London Line article, but the list of stations should be the same quality as the Central Line.
• Schools of London need to have their own pages, with at least 500 words. The Greater London and City of London sections in List of schools in the United Kingdom also need to be completed, and all London schools should be properly categorised within Category:Schools in London.
• Template:Ti needs to be added to all London station articles (tube/rail/DLR)
• Template:Ti needs to be added to all London district articles

Good articles so far

• Brentford (nominated by the substantive author, so possibly not NPOV!)
• Whitechapel

Completed tube lines

• Central Line
• Victoria Line
• Jubilee Line
• Bakerloo Line
• Metropolitan Line (Only East London Line Section)

Reference

Associated pages

• List of places in London, England
• London postal districts
• Subterranean London
• Subterranean rivers of London
• Template:Infobox London Borough
• Template:Infobox London place
• Wikipedia:LUL navboxes

External resources

• Familia: find information about places in the UK
• City of London Churches site
• Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides
• DMOZ category for the Underground
• Dickens's Dictionary of London, by Charles Dickens, Jr., published in 1879.
• London neighborhood statistics (unfortunately, these are m:Crown Copyright, so we can't just copy them)
• Transport Statistics for London: 1999 (Crown Copyright, too).
• London Health Observatory statistics for each area in London (Crown Copyright again).
• London Mortality Data: 1850 to 1900
• London Population Data: 1850 to 1900
• London population statistics by ethnic group from the GLA